NADER WANTS TO KNOW WHY MCCAIN, OBAMA, CLINTON HAVEN'T SIGNED ONTO CLUSTER BAN BILL
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader wants to know why Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton have not signed onto legislation, S. 594, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, that would serve as a de facto ban on the use and export of nearly all of the one billion cluster bombs in the U.S. Stockpile.
The bill has 21 Senate co-sponsors.
The bill would prohibit the sale or use of cluster munitions that have a high failure rate. It would also prohibit the use of U.S.-made cluster munitions in civilian-populated areas. And third, the bill requires that if cluster munitions are used, the President must submit to Congress within 30 days a plan for cleaning up unexploded duds -- in the case of foreign use of U.S. cluster munitions, the plan must be prepared by the government to which the U.S. provided the weapons.
"This is life saving legislation," Nader said. "I urge the Senate to pass this legislation."